Witches in Early Modern England

is found guilty of practicing witchcraft on a young maid J[u]lian Cox, aged about 70 years, was Indicted at Taunton in Somersetshire, about Summer Assizes 1663. before Judge Archer then Judge of Assize there, for Witchcraft, which she practised upon

alleged to be the first of several noted cases of witchcraft in the North in 1612. In the earlier part of the seventeenth century there were several noted cases of witchcraft in the North. The first is the well-known tale

"Margaret Wait Senior and Elizabeth Fletcher are imprisoned on suspicion of witchcraft. ", 'Daemonologia: a Discourse on Witchcraft as it was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax', Edward Fairfax, (1621) Margaret WaiteElizabeth FletcherMargaret WaiteDorothy Fairfax SmithsonEdward FairfaxAlice GreyElizabeth

Victoria County History

of alleged witchcraft. In February Jaquetta, duchess of Bedford , appeared before the council at Westminster and complained that one Thomas Wake , esq., had in the time of the late troubles caused her to be accused of witchcraft, inasmuch

rebuilt by the present owner, Mr. W. H. Hartley . Goldshaw is closely connec ted with the famous Pendle Forest witchcraft trials of 1612. Elizabeth Southerns, 'Old Demdike,' confessed that she had first met Tib, her 'familiar,' some twenty years

in 1662 . 15 The most interesting personage connected with Roughlee is Alice Nutter , one of those accused of witchcraft, and hanged at Lancaster in 1612 . She was the wife of Richard son of Miles Nutter , and

Sawyer , married to a local labourer, was suspected of felony in 1615 46 and apparently hanged for killing by witchcraft. Her story, told to a minister who visited her in prison, was published in a tract in 1621 ,

L. 3. The Bill to revive the Act for Punishment of Buggery. - Jud'm. Witchcraft. L. 2. The Bill for Punishment of Invocations of Evil Spirits, Witchcraft, Inchantment, or Sorcery. Perjury. 3. The Bill for Punishment of wilful Perjury, by

Southampton. Bowyers; L. 1. 2. Proviso for the Price of Bows by the Bowyers. Witchcraft; L. 1. The Bill for Punishment of Invocations of Evil Spirits, Witchcraft, Inchantment, or Sorcery. Prophecies. L. 2. The Bill against fond and fantastical Prophecies.

from the Lords, by Mr. Reads, and Mr. Marten. Unlawful Assemblies. 3. The Bill to revive the Act against unlawful Assemblies. - Jud'm. Sorcery, & c. 3. The Bill for Punishment of Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Buggery, by Felony. - Jud'm.

The Newton Project

and built altars in the two courts of the house, to all the host of Heaven, and us'd inchantments and witchcraft, and familiar spirits, and for his great wickedness was invaded by the army of Asserhadon King of Assyria, and

and built altars in the two courts of the house, to all the host of Heaven, and us'd inchantments and witchcraft, and familiar spirits, and for his great wickedness was invaded by the army of Asserhadon King of Assyria, and

now hence forth know we him no more." Gal. v. 19, 20. "the works of the flesh...are these, adultery... idolatry, witchcraft... they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." See also 1 John v. 21. Rev.

now hence forth know we him no more." Gal. v. 19, 20. "the works of the flesh...are these, adultery... idolatry, witchcraft... they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." See also 1 John v. 21. Rev.

of the Christian Faith Asserted, 363; Fullwood, A Parallel, 10-11. See Toland, Collections, II, 307 commenting on Jacobite accusations of witchcraft and heresy; 'Well; if magic won't do, heresy must. I am a dangerous anti-trinitarian, for having often publickly declared

(3 ^^e ^ruc mt^trCti of ST. DUNSTAN MD THE DEYIL; SHOWING HOW THE HORSE-SHOE CAME TO BE A CHARM AGAINST? WITCHCRAFT. ^¦U/:<W:/lf<77lJc. '' And it is for trouth reported, that where this signe dothe appere, there the? Evill Spirite entreth

refer to it as an eminently? learned, suggestive, and curious book. The Discoverie of Witchcraft is valuable also as being? the first book written against witchcraft in England, and? also indirectly serviceable as a revelation of the popular? beliefs which

^W^ELKIN.  The Lapland Witches were frequently known to go to great heights in order to raise storms." ?jD«»»ono/o^ and Witchcraft," hy King James the First.? Okriki . ... . .» (t^e Lapland Witch) ... ... ... JH^ MEAGRESON Demon

John Foxe's The Acts and Monuments Online

that do practise or exercise any artes of Magike, or Necromancye, or do vse or practise any Incantations, sorceries or witchcraft, or be vehemētly suspected therofItem, whether anye bee maryed in the degrees of affinity or consanguinitye, prohibited by the

the fornication of the fayre and beautifull harlotte, which is a maister of witchcraft, yea and selleth the people through her whoredom, and the nations through her witchcraft. And followeth vpon the same: Behold I will vpon thee, sayth &#254;e

the fornication of the fayre and beautifull harlotte, which is a maister of witchcraft, yea and selleth the people through her whoredome, and the nations through her witchcraft. And followeth vpon the same: Behold I will vpon thee sayth the

among them, as vnlawfull swearyng, periurie, blasphemie, cursing, sclaunderyng, dissension, deceit, wrong dealyng, vsury, gluttony, drunkennes, whoredome, theft, murther, sorcery, witchcraft, or such lyke: but wholy endeuoured them selues to lyue in the feare of God, and accordyng to his

that do practise or exercise any artes of Magike, or Necromancy, or do vse or practise any Incantations, sorceryes, or witchcraft, or be vehemently suspected thereof.14.Item, whether any be maryed in the degrees of affinitie, or consanguinitie, prohibited by the

Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858

Opens by noting that 'to minds not constitutionally incredulous', spiritualist manifestations give foundation to ancient beliefs about witchcraft. Believing spiritualism and necromancy to be 'convertible terms', anticipates the possibility of modern sorcery and Faustian pacts and considers likely equivalents for

'If Mr. Du Maurier's purpose had been to create a shudder, he might, without going beyond the authentic records of hypnotic experiment, have obtained much more gruesome examples of the new witchcraft than the comparatively innocent practices of Svengali' (374).

I claims that he cannot find fault with any of his acts and remarks that 'In our time [... ] witchcraft had a pungent odour' but 'has now an aromatic scent, and is gratefully inhaled by persons moving in select

British Newspapers 1600-1900

d'Orleans assrlssinated for speafring- ill of hin and his aniours. Ile suffered Gilles de lIatz, Marechlal of France, accused cf witchcraft, arid a great number of his domestics, to be burnt alive. NT r. ,C ojeride Nwishes to revive a

t l~im after her communication of Mrs. 1Ford's assignatiou. with him; that he has "charms," meaning that, has recourse to witchcraft, Mr. COOxrE takes the word in its present acceptation, and bows and has. to. thecos- plilneut and this notwiths

taste of so foiul a stream. mtout previousiy have s-t his senses. The filth and the abomi- naiionis of demoniacaitl witchcraft are embhlematical aofsuch de- Insions ; not the golden goblet and betwitching allurementssef Circe and Armida. The patient and

The History of Parliament

only child) by his first marriage. Scott was the author of the Discovery of Witchcraft, an attempt to enlist ‘Christian compassion’ towards those accused of witchcraft. James I ordered it to be burned, but the book, published in Holland in

Eleanor Thursby, but a scapegoat in the person of a Stephen Trefulack was found guilty of provoking the affair by witchcraft. Southcote was concerned in Devon defence measures in 1597, mortgaged lands to Sir William Strode in 1604 and in

on 14 June 1713. His reputation as a judge was deservedly high, and he is said to have killed one witchcraft case by remarking that there was no law against flying. Dean Swift described him as ‘the merriest old gentleman

then his son, to sit for the local boroughs.[footnote]Baynton’s eldest son William died as a child in 1564, allegedly by witchcraft practised by one Agnes Mills (who was duly hanged) at the instigation of Baynton’s sister-in-law Dorothy, who hoped that

his weak brain, but I believe it rather folly with some touch of a tame mopish madness than anything of witchcraft or love to his mother’s chambermaid, as some report of him. ... By that little which I have seen